How one man telegraphed Australia to the modern world
In 1855 Charles Todd had a bold dream to build a telegraph line across Australia to connect it to the world. By 1870, Singapore had joined the global network: now for Australia. Todd and his men successfully erected thousands of telegraph poles - one every 80 metres - across land that was relentlessly inhospitable and largely unknown to them.
The ruins of South Australia are barren, isolated time capsules. In this book you inhale these ghostly narratives upon the opening of each creaking door. A diverse, unique and often unexplored region of the ‘Great Land Down Under’, the visual stories presented here are mere footnotes of South Australia’s long and complex history.
The year's best wildlife and landscape photos 2018
The bioregion that encompasses Australia, New Zealand, The year’s best wildlife and landscape photos Antarctica and New Guinea possesses a unique natural heritage stretching back more than 80 million years, to the break-up of the great southern continent of Gondwana. The South Australian Museum and Australian Geographic focus on enhancing a ......
Harry Styles is an English singer, songwriter, and actor. His musical career began in 2010 as a solo contestant on the British music competition series The X Factor. Following his elimination early on, he was brought back to join the boy band One Direction, which went on to become one of the best- selling boy bands of all time. Styles released his ......
Beautiful, haunting photographs of abandoned places around the world. Once thriving buildings now ravaged by nature and time are the subject of this fascinating book. The vestiges of Abkhazia, a country that does not exist, an abandoned power plant turned into a set for Hollywood movies, the Buffer Zone in Cyprus, the ghost city of the Chernobyl ......
A stunning collection of photographs capturing 45 different dog breeds across 65 portraits, each canine is complete with facts about their breed and personality.
A Grief and Loss Collection for Children, Families and Communities
This book offers story medicine for children, families and communities at times of grieving, loss and separation. Stories and words have healing potential. They can strengthen us, help to reframe things, and help make meaning. Included are stories for: the loss of a loved one such as a death in the family of a baby, child, sibling, parent, ......
Pink Floyd Live Collected provides an insight into the unique live concert journey of one of the most groundbreaking and influential bands of all time. Follow the band from when they formed as students in Cambridge in 1965 and consisted of Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright, with Dave Gilmour joining in 1967. Syd Barrett ......
